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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2019 source ↗
When I was young and carefree, before I realised what the obstacles were that we face as black people. I was raised in a beautiful home with incredible parents. They allowed me to enjoy what it was to be a child.
I am often happiest on a shoot with David LaChapelle, being pushed to the extremes – either suspended from a harness or immersed in a tank of water. He calls it “extreme modelling”.
Right here, right now.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
As the man who never died.
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
In the last couple of years, Britain.
I learned how to play The Wind Cries Mary guitar solo.
Most of the people that saw me do comedy between the years 2007 and 2012.
Stuart Broad, Jesse Jackson, Marina Abramović, Greta Scacchi, George Takei, Harry Redknapp
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